Nelson-Creston
British Columbia electoral district | |||
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Provincial electoral district | |||
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | ||
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First contested | 1933 | ||
Last contested | 2009 | ||
Demographics | |||
Population (2001) | 44,131 | ||
Area (km²) | 21,795 | ||
Pop. density (per km²) | 2 | ||
Census divisions | Regional District of Central Kootenay | ||
Census subdivisions | Ainsworth Hot Springs, Creston, Kaslo, Nelson |
Nelson-Creston is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the general election of 1933 following a redistribution of the earlier Nelson riding.
Historically, the riding was consistently held by the "free enterprise" party of the era. Until 1952, this alternated between the Liberals and the Coalition, while after 1952, Social Credit won every election until the NDP victory in 1972.
Since 1972, the NDP has won all but two elections: in 1986, Social Credit won the riding along with many others in the Interior and in 2001, prominent NDP Cabinet minister, Corky Evans, was defeated in an election that saw all but two NDP MLAs suffer defeat. Since 2005, the NDP has won the riding by wide margins.
Demographics
Population, 2001 | 44,131 |
Population Change, 1996–2001 | -2.2% |
Area (km²) | 21,795 |
Pop. Density (people per km²) | 2.0 |
Members of the Legislative Assembly
The district has elected the following members to the Legislative Assembly:
Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
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18th | 1933-1937 | Frank Putnam | Liberal | |
19th | 1937-1941 | |||
20th | 1941-1945 | |||
21st | 1945-1949 | Coalition | ||
22nd | 1949-1952 | Walter Hendricks | Coalition | |
23rd | 1952-1953 | Wesley Drewett Black | Social Credit | |
24th | 1953-1956 | |||
25th | 1956-1960 | |||
26th | 1960-1963 | |||
27th | 1963-1966 | |||
28th | 1966-1969 | |||
29th | 1969-1972 | |||
30th | 1972-1975 | Lorne Nicholson | NDP | |
31st | 1975-1979 | |||
32nd | 1979-1983 | |||
33rd | 1983-1986 | |||
34th | 1986-1991 | Howard Dirks | Social Credit | |
35th | 1991–1996 | Corky Evans | NDP | |
36th | 1996–2001 | |||
37th | 2001–2005 | Blair Suffredine | Liberal | |
38th | 2005–2009 | Corky Evans | NDP | |
39th | 2009–2013 | Michelle Mungall | NDP | |
40th | 2013–present |
Election results
B.C. General Election 2013: Nelson-Creston | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
New Democratic | Michelle Mungall | 8,200 | 50.73% | -4.68% | $58,838 | |
Liberal | Greg Garbula | 4,577 | 28.32% | -2.12% | $47,428 | |
Green | Sjeng Derkx | 3,387 | 20.95% | +13.81% | $18,928 | |
Total Valid Votes | 16,164 | 100% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 122 | 0.75 | ||||
Turnout | 16,286 | 57.63 |
B.C. General Election 2009: Nelson-Creston | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
NDP | Michelle Mungall | 9,060 | 55% | n/a | $52,366 | |
Liberal | Josh Smienk | 5,191 | 31% | n/a | $77,586 | |
Green | Sean Kubara | 1,189 | 7% | n/a | $3,800 | |
Conservative | David Duncan | 1,083 | 7% | n/a | $2,676 | |
Total Valid Votes | 16,523 | 100% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 98 | 0.6% | ||||
Turnout | 16,621 | 60% |
British Columbia general election, 2005 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
NDP | Corky Evans | 12,896 | 58.80% | $59,942 | ||||
Liberal | Blair Suffredine | 5,862 | 26.73% | $52,434 | ||||
Green | Luke Crawford | 2,724 | 12.42% | $10,212 | ||||
Marijuana | Philip McMillan | 276 | 1.26% | $100 | ||||
Bloc | Brian Taylor | 173 | 0.79% | $215 | ||||
Total Valid Votes | 21,931 | |||||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 137 | 0.62% | ||||||
Turnout | 22,068 | 67.88% |
B.C. General Election 2001: Nelson-Creston | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
Liberal | Blair Suffredine | 8,558 | 39.00% | $53,478 | ||
NDP | Corky Evans | 6,981 | 31.82% | $46,070 | ||
Green | Colleen McCrory | 4,723 | 21.53% | – | $33,223 | |
Unity | Stephen Cox | 1,108 | 5.05% | $3,216 | ||
Marijuana | Dan Loehndorf | 570 | 2.60% | $1,400 | ||
Total Valid Votes | 21,940 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 79 | 0.36% | ||||
Turnout | 22,019 | 75.32% |
B.C. General Election 1996: Nelson-Creston | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
NDP | Corky Evans | 9,179 | 44.90% | $42,880 | ||
Liberal | Howard Dirks | 6,434 | 31.47% | $41,078 | ||
Green | Andy Shadrack | 2,282 | 11.16% | – | $18,611 | |
Reform | Brian Dale Gaschnitz | 2,114 | 10.34% | |||
Family Coalition | Brian John Zacharias | 360 | 1.76% | – | $4,489 | |
Natural Law | Ruth Anne Taves | 73 | 0.36% | $398 | ||
Total Valid Votes | 20,442 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 82 | 0.40% | ||||
Turnout | 20,524 | 75.20% |
B.C. General Election 1991: Nelson-Creston | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
NDP | Corky Evans | 8,583 | 46.91% | $33,620 | ||
Social Credit | Howard Dirks | 5,739 | 31.36% | – | $52,253 | |
Liberal | Barry L. Neufeld | 3,510 | 19.18% | $863 | ||
Green | Andrea Wright | 467 | 2.55% | – | $1,082 | |
Total Valid Votes | 18,299 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 428 | 2.29% | ||||
Turnout | 18,727 | 80.60% |
28th B.C. General Election 1966: Nelson-Creston | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
Social Credit | Wesley Drewett Black | 4683 | 59.3% | – | ||
NDP | Munro | 2324 | 29.4% | |||
Liberal | A. M. M. Vogel | 892 | 11.3% | |||
Total Valid Votes | 7899 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 91 | 1.1% | ||||
Turnout | 7990 | 69.2% |
27th B.C. General Election 1963: Nelson-Creston | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
Social Credit | Wesley Drewett Black | 4047 | 44.6% | – | ||
NDP | Askevold | 1943 | 21.4% | |||
Liberal | A. M. M. Vogel | 1600 | 17.7% | |||
Progressive Conservative | Shorthouse | 1474 | 16.3% | |||
Total Valid Votes | 9064 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 53 | 0.6% | ||||
Turnout | 9117 | 75.2% |
26th B.C. General Election 1960: Nelson-Creston | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
Social Credit | Wesley Drewett Black | 4501 | 49.4% | – | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | McNevin | 2664 | 29.2% | |||
Liberal | Oliver | 1222 | 13.4% | |||
Progressive Conservative | Taylor | 730 | 8.0% | |||
Total Valid Votes | 9117 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 106 | 1.1% | ||||
Turnout | 9223 | 76.0% |
25th B.C. General Election 1956: Nelson-Creston | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
Social Credit | Wesley Drewett Black | 4190 | 51.0% | – | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Affleck | 2331 | 28.4% | |||
Liberal | White | 1622 | 19.7% | |||
Labour Progressive | Mountford | 70 | 0.9% | |||
Total Valid Votes | 8213 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 86 | 1.0% | ||||
Turnout | 8299? | 71.0% |
British Columbia general election, 1953 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % | |||
Social Credit | Wesley Drewett Black | 3,450 | 39.4% | 4,199 | 55.2% | |||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Simms | 2,636 | 30.1% | 3,404 | 44.8% | |||
Liberal | Tees | 1,803 | 20.6% | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Shorthouse | 772 | 8.8% | |||||
Labor–Progressive | Mountford | 99 | 1.1% | |||||
Total valid votes | 8,760 | 100.00% | 7,603 | 100% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 455 | |||||||
Turnout | 88.1% | |||||||
Note: Preferential ballot. First and last counts only shown. |
British Columbia general election, 1952 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % | |||
Social Credit | Wesley Drewett Black | 2,975 | 33.8% | 4,265 | 56.0% | |||
Liberal | Walter Hendricks | 2,572 | 29.2% | 3,351 | 44.0% | |||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Simms | 2,473 | 28.1% | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Stibbs | 774 | 8.8% | |||||
Total valid votes | 8,794 | 100.00% | 7,616 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 413 | 4.5% | ||||||
Turnout | 75.2% | |||||||
Note: Preferential ballot. First and last counts only shown. |
22nd B.C. General Election 1949: Nelson-Creston | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
Coalition | Walter Hendricks | 4783 | 60.0% | – | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Drew | 2675 | 33.6% | |||
Social Credit | Horne | 508 | 6.4% | – | ||
Total Valid Votes | 7966 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 151 | 1.9% | ||||
Turnout | 8117 | 79.6% |
21st B.C. General Election 1945: Nelson-Creston | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
Coalition | Frank Putnam | 3055 | 58.6% | – | ||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Phillips | 1249 | 24.0% | |||
People's Co-operative Commonwealth | Peter Stuart Beatt | 726 | 13.9% | |||
Independent | Frisby | 184 | 3.5% | |||
Total Valid Votes | 5214 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 39 | 0.7% | ||||
Turnout | 5253 | 65.0% |
20th B.C. General Election 1941: Nelson-Creston | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
Liberal | Frank Putnam | 2144 | 33.5% | |||
Conservative | Donaldson | 2140 | 33.4% | |||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Frisby | 2124 | 33.1% | |||
Total Valid Votes | 6408 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 89 | 1.4% | ||||
Turnout | 6497 | 76.9% |
19th B.C. General Election 1937: Nelson-Creston | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
Liberal | Frank Putnam | 2149 | 39.2% | |||
Conservative | Horswill | 1901 | 34.6% | |||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Bayliss | 1121 | 20.4% | |||
Social Credit | Howe | 177 | 3.2% | – | ||
Independent | Mulholland | 139 | 2.5% | |||
Total Valid Votes | 5487 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 61 | 1.1% | ||||
Turnout | 5548 | 74.5% |
18th B.C. General Election 1933: Nelson-Creston | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
Liberal | Frank Putnam | 2489 | 49.2% | |||
Non-Partisan Independent Group | Fred W. Lister | 1302 | 25.7% | |||
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Walley | 1161 | 22.9% | |||
United Front (Workers and Farmers) | Mountford | 108 | 2.1% | |||
Total Valid Votes | 5060 | 100.00% | ||||
Total Rejected Ballots | 102 | 2.0% | ||||
Turnout | 5162 | 74.0% |
Sources:
1. SUMMARIES OF PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS AND BY-ELECTIONS, BRITISH COLUMBIA 1928 TO 1969.By: BRITISH COLUMBIA. CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER, Published: 1969, McMaster University Government Publications.
External links
- BC Stats Profile - 2001 (pdf)
- Results of 2001 election (pdf)
- 2001 Expenditures
- Results of 1996 election
- 1996 Expenditures
- Results of 1991 election
- 1991 Expenditures
- Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
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